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On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 5:25 PM, dhritiman hazarika <[email protected]>wrote:
> Really Great post once again . Its really helpfull . I am learning a
> lot and i am enjoying it . Thanks.
>
> On 5/17/11, Rodolfo S. Carvalho <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 3:30 AM, Adriano Monteiro Marques
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> HI Zubair!
> >> Congrats for another awesome post!
> >>
> >> Cheers!
> >>
> >> Begin forwarded message:
> >>
> >> From: Zubair Nabi <[email protected]>
> >> Date: May 16, 2011 2:55:27 PM GMT-03:00
> >> To: [email protected]
> >> Subject: [The UMIT project] i10n and L8n in Android
> >>
> >> One of the strongest features of open source software is its global
> >> reachability. But sometimes language and local convention might be a
> >> hindrance. That's where Internationalization (i10n) and Localization
> (L8n)
> >> come in. The combination of both known as Globalization is a process
> which
> >> allows software to be molded according to local languages and convention
> >> without making any changes to the codebase, for example, changing the
> >> language from English to French or changing the currency symbol from the
> >> dollar to the pound.
> >> Android by default allows the programmer to decouple the code and the
> >> non-code assets such as text, images and formatting. These "resources"
> are
> >> present under the res/ directory [1]. The default text for example is
> >> present inside res/values/strings.xml. For instance, if your default
> >> language is English and you want to allow your application's text to
> >> localize to French when the device's language is changed to French, the
> >> application would need to have an alternative locale-specific resource
> >> directory, res/values-fr/strings.xml in this case [2].
> >> Let's now consider an example. We have an application interface which
> >> contains a button which should have the label "Send" in English and
> >> "Envoyer" in French. We first add the following line to
> >> res/values/strings.xml:
> >> Send
> >> And then add Envoyer to res/values-fr/strings.xml. Inside the layout XML
> >> for
> >> this button's interface, within the button's definition tag (), we add
> >> android:text="@string/string_send". Essentially, what we have done is
> that
> >> by way of indirection of we have pointed the Android runtime to access
> our
> >> string resource using @string. To access the same string
> programmatically
> >> in
> >> Java we would use getString(R.string.string_send). Our button has now
> been
> >> localized to French. The same strategy can also be used to localize
> >> graphics, i.e. by providing graphics in both res/drawable/ and
> >> res/drawable-fr/. The two-letter ISO 639-1 code for other languages can
> be
> >> found at [3].
> >> 1.
> >>
> http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/res/Resources.html
> >> 2.
> http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/localization.html
> >> 3. http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/code_list.php
> >>
> >> --
> >> Posted By Zubair Nabi to The UMIT project at 5/16/2011 02:09:00 PM
> >
> > I think we should start blogging it or something. That's awesome to
> > have our GSoC developers writing good stuff other than python code :D
> >
> >>
> >> ---
> >> Adriano Monteiro Marques
> >> http://www.thoughtspad.com
> >> http://www.umitproject.org
> >> http://blog.umitproject.org
> >> http://www.pythonbenelux.org
> >> "Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed." - George Burns
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Rodolfo Carvalho
> > Web Developer
> > [email protected]
> >
>
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